The Selling of Free Trade: Nafta, Washington, and the Subversion of American Democracy - Hardcover

MacArthur, John R.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0809085313 ISBN 13: 9780809085316

Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub, 2000

Synopsis

A disturbing expose of the inner workings of power in America focuses on the debate over the North American Free Trade Agreement, uncovering the bi-partisan coalition that forced its passage ostensibly to help workers everywhere, but in reality to allow corporations free access to cheap labor.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

"If there is spin, there is counterspin: The Selling of 'Free Trade' is a devastating unraveling of yet another Bill Clinton con job. MacArthur tells the NAFTA story in the voices of those who did the spinning and those who suffered from it. It doesn't get much better."―Seymour M. Hersh

"A gripping and fresh analysis of the corporate construction of an onrushing NAFTA and the human damage in its wake. MacArthur demonstrates what happens when an underdeveloped democracy is confronted by an overdeveloped corporation-governmental oligarchy."―Ralph Nader, consumer advocate.

About the Author:

John R. MacArthur, president and publisher of Harper's Magazine since 1983, is an award-winning journalist and author. He is the author of Second Front: Censorship and Propaganda in the Gulf War (Hill and Wang, 1992). He lives in New York City.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hill & Wang Pub
• Publication date: 2000
• ISBN 10: 0809085313
• ISBN 13: 9780809085316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 388